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A few weekends ago I played in my first rugby tournament, and I loved every minute of it! We went down to St. Louis, Missouri, to play in the 69th Gateway Ruggerfest and competed with five other women’s teams. Our team traveled down on Friday since our first game was pretty early Saturday morning. That day we had two great games that both ended in shut outs. Luckily with tournaments, the games are shortened by 10-20 minutes and we’re able to continue to sub players in and out when we wanted.

My teammates and I with our trophies. That’s me on the left.

I have never played so much rugby in one day, and my body definitely felt it afterwards! That night we were able to have a great team bonding experience by going out to dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory in St. Louis. We had quite a few options, and the food was scrumptious. It was nice to relax and chat with each other and have a good distraction from school and our other stresses. When we arrived back at the hotel, my roommates and I could only stay up for a little longer till we passed out. The next day we won our first game and then played for the championship right after. Unfortunately, we didn’t win, but we were really happy and proud to get second in the tournament. We left right after the tournament, and I had a van ride full of studying for an exam the next day!

Getting back to academics that week was a little more challenging than I expected! I was recovering from the weekend since it took quite a toll on my body from the many games we played. Luckily I prepared myself for our biomechanics exam on Monday, but I had to practice a lot for physical diagnosis since we had a quiz and practical at the end of the week. It’s great to use friends and family to check their temperature, blood pressure, pulse, respiratory rate and also finding their pulse on different arteries on the body. Our professor gives us a lot of class time to practice on our fellow students, and he helps us double-check our findings If we’re having troubles with pulses or rates. I love being able to get hands on with patient care and learn more about clinical work.

My parents with a surprise visit! So I took them to Whitey’s for ice cream.

I also got a wonderful surprise not long ago … my parents came down to visit me here in Davenport! They took a two-week road trip down the Mississippi River. Since they only came for one night, we decided just to go out to dinner downtown at Me and Billy and get ice cream at the famous Whitey’s here in the Quad Cities. We enjoyed a little movie night that also involved a little studying for me for a quiz in physical diagnosis class. All in all, they loved being able to start their trip off here in the Quad Cities!

The following weekend I attended my first Chiropractic and Sports Symposium! I was really excited for the speakers and met a lot of alumni who also played rugby here at Palmer. It was a great experience, especially since we had a game Saturday along with the men’s team. We practiced hard and played hard–which paid off because we won!